Attitude of college students towards environmental education

Present age is the age of science and technology. Different countries have been using the technology in different ways only to establish its dominance in the world. As a result pollution has been reaching to its extremely day to day. In the circumstances, to keep ourselves as well as our world safe we are in desperate need of environmental education and we have to more and more conscious of environment. Environmental Education plays a vital role to create responsiveness or awareness among the students. We know that environmental education is an integral process and sustainable tool which deals with man’s interrelationship with his natural things and protection of environment pollution. Environment education deals with man-made surroundings including the relation of population growth, pollution resources allocation and depletion, conservation, technology and urban and rural planning to the total human environment. This study was conducted to know the attitude of college students towards Environmental Education in Purulia district of West Bengal. The sample consisted of male (100) and female (100) students from four colleges in Purulia district, West Bengal, India. An attitude scale (Likert-type scale) was used for collecting the data. Stratified Random Sampling procedure was followed. Results indicated the attitude of College students towards Environmental Education was neither more favourable nor unfavourable, but satisfactory or average. The study also revealed that there is significant difference between the attitude of male and female college students towards Environmental Education. There is no significant difference between the attitude of rural and urban college students towards Environmental Education. There is significant difference among the attitude of General, OBC, SC and ST college students towards Environmental Education. There is no significant difference among the attitude of language, science and social science streams college students towards Environmental Education.